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Putting on the brakes: Bacterial impediment of wound healing.
Scientific reports - 14 Sept 2015
Brothers Kimberly M, Stella Nicholas A, Hunt Kristin M, Romanowski Eric G, Liu Xinyu, Klarlund Jes K, Shanks Robert M Q
Abstract excerpt
The epithelium provides a crucial barrier to infection, and its integrity requires efficient wound healing. Bacterial cells and secretomes from a subset of tested species of bacteria inhibited human and porcine corneal epithelial cell migration in vitro and ex vivo. Secretomes from 95% of Serratia marcescens, 71% of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 29% of Staphylococcus aureus strains, and other bacterial species...
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